Higher minimum wage won't reduce poverty

Opinion: Raising minimum wage won't reduce poverty

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski has proposed setting a minimum wage of at least $10 an hour for employees of contractors hired to do work for Allentown. He says, "Every economist agrees that raising the minimum wage is the best way to reduce poverty."

If that was true, which it isn't, then why stop at $10 an hour? Why not $25 or $50 an hour? Poverty would vanish.

The mayor's "every economist" must be the economist advising Democratic mayors in Pennsylvania whose cities are or have been on the verge of bankruptcy.